American Sales for Week Ending Nov 17, 2007

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Talk about a beastly week before the week of Black Friday. Remember this comes from VGCharts, and although there sales are normally withing 90% accuracy, still waiting for NPD to confirm it is best. But these sales and NPD sales won’t be too far off. Anyways here’s hardware first off. The first numbers is how much it sold that week and the thing in parthenses is the percent of increase or decrease from sales last week. And the sales right of the percentage is lifetime sales in that region. This is Americas which includes everything on the Western Hemisphere.

Wii- 253,878(+75%) 6,271,881
NDS- 179,601(+15%) 16,564,888
360- 154,918(+9%) 8,580,985
PSP- 88,743(+3%) 9,954,564
PS3- 87,225(+10%) 2,427,171
PS2- 73,684(+17%) 45,412,401
GBA- 22,793(+18%) 41,087,555
NGC- 815(+22%) 12,708,911


Wii completely dominated this week. With about 20 new releases for the week, and one of those being Galaxy, hardware sales skyrocketed. But I’m sure most of that was due to timely shipping increases.

DS soars back up and looking to have a huge holiday season just like Wii. 360 is hanging up high and doesn’t drop down at all. Even with Wii succeeding so valiantly it’s staying up there, mostly due to the killer software it has releasing.

PSP and PS3 outstrip the PS2. Finally eh. PS3’s main increases coming from the 40gb which seems just in time for the holiday season. The majority of PS3’s sold this week was of the 40gb not the 80gb.

Surprisingly though GBA and PS2 aren’t doing bad despite the complete dominance of not just one but multiplae products in their same markets. They had such a large grip on the market for so long that it’s taking them awhile to die out.

Percentage wise 360 no longer has a 50% majority of the American market. Due to this week’s Wii sales and stronger sales of PS3, the 360 sales in America are now simply a plurality. Wii game between 360 is now 2.3 million. That gap should come to about 1 million after 2007 is over.

Now software. Here is the top 25. Bundles are included. You’ll get the rank, then game name, then this week’s sales, and then LTD in this region.

Rk. Name- WS/LTD

1. Super Mario Galaxy- 751,322/751,322
2. Assassin’s Creed(360)- 585,064/585,064
3. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare(360)- 267,322/774,981
4. Wii Sports- 253,878/6,271,881
5. WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008(PS2)- 248,801/248,801
6. Assassin’s Creed(PS3)- 226,177/226,177
7. Forza Motorsport 2- 138,373/1,093,900
8. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance(360)- 134,392/994,693
9. Wii Play- 130,965/2,935,160
10. WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008(360)- 129,554/129,554
11. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles- 128,109/128,109
12. Need For Speed: ProStreet(PS2)- 125,307/125,307
13. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare(PS3)- 114,436/308,887
14. Need For Speed: ProStreet(360)- 109,748/109,748
15. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock(PS2)- 104,432/719,046
16. Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3(PS2)- 102,287/102,287
17. Kane and Lynch: Dead Men(360)- 93,147/93,147
18. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock(360)- 80,964/892,447
19. Blacksite: Area 51(360)- 64,544/64,544
20. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock(Wii)- 63,996/438,591
21. Mario & Sonic at the Olympics(Wii)- 59,056/140,501
22. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass- 56,446/627,460
23. WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2008(Wii)- 55,716/55,716
24. Halo 3- 54,445/4,104,464
25. Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2(Wii)- 49,094/49,094

Platform Totals
360- 2,358,209
Wii- 2,191,361
PS2- 984,598
PS3- 848,509
NDS- 830,485
PSP- 323,307
NGC- 17,727
XBX- 13,197
GBA- 6,903

Publisher Totals
Nintendo- 1,641,412
Ubisoft- 1,170,677
Activision- 1,023,866
Electronic Arts- 900,227
THQ- 677,920
Microsoft- 276,496
Sony- 229,887
Take 2- 202,924
Capcom- 199,714
Lucasarts- 179,983

Wooh what a week. Obviously Galaxy takes the gold by a milestone. 750k in launch week now tha’ts impressive. Assassin’s Creed on the 360 and PS3 really come out strong. COD4 still lively and hot. Same with Guitar Hero III on all platforms. NFS: ProStreet, on all platforms did well but EA has to be a little dissappointed. While WWE game did quite well on pretty much all platforms. No surprised on 50k on the Wii as WWE games osld well on the GC.

Capcom will be very happy about opening RE:UC sales. Wii Play also conintues to hold it on.

Overall lots of new releases and jsut a great week for gamers and publishers alike. I’ll update past 25 sooner or later. I’m sure Sony fans are wondering where Uncharted is.

Last edited 20 Nov 2007 09:40 pm by Zucas

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And it’s color coded now in software. You know the colors that fit which brand so no worries. Hope noone has read and green color blindness.

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According to my friend, who works at Circuit City, they received a Wii shipment and sold out very quickly. I’m thinking shipments probably came in other stores around the country, so its probably why the Wii sold well.

However, Black Friday may be crazy...Glad I already bought the damn thing.

I’m interested to see the PS3’s progress after this week.

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Yep that’s what I heard when I went to Best Buy and Gamestop today. Same stories. Gone instantly.

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GALAXY BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Galaxy definetly did own pretty hard. Wonder how much it’ll manage in its second week.

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Galaxy is a frieken beast!!!!!

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Yep had 8 games in the top 25 for Wii this week. RE:UC opened very well as well.

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Im so fucking sure the xbox360 did not sale 2million I doubt that completly the Wii maybe but defilently not the 360

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wow good work PS3 and PSP this week eh?

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Those are software sales you are looking at where Wii and 360 had sold 2 million software that week. That is not hardware sales. I dont' think there has ever been anything to sell 2 million units of hardware in one week in America.

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well could you get the most recent sales of the next gen systems I want to see how the PS3 is doing now the sales are shooting up compared to the 360

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This is the most recent you’ll find.

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I ment world wide sales

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Look them up yourself.

vgchartz.com is only a website away :/